don't use vars, use our

[haarg]

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[exodist]

I do not object to this, but I also am not sure what we gain? Can you explain the motivation for this change?

[toddr]

My comment would be that we've been telling people the right way to do it for years but we don't eat our own dog food.

This sort of thing in code that ships with Perl can confuse a less knowledgeable person. When they notice that the code that ships with Perl continues to use the old style, they think: "Maybe I should use it..."

[haarg]

It's also one less module to load, as minuscule of a benefit as that may be.